Below is a list of presentations that will be given during the two day conference of ICSPI (November 13th & 14th, 2007). To view a presentations outline; click on the presentations title.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

7:00 - 8:00	Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:15	Opening Remarks: Dr. Magdy Hanna Conference Chair
8:15 - 9:15	Keynote: Where did all the process improvement go? Michael West
	SPI	Quality Management	CMM/CMMI	Measurements	Project Management
9:30 - 10:30	When The Villagers Stormed The Castle: A Tale Of Our Process Improvement Journey Sue Carroll & Shari Forvendel SAS Institute Inc.	Change Leadership Toolbox: More than Just a Hammer Julie Thomas McKesson Corporation	Implementing CMMI with a Service Perspective Prior to the Service Model Clyneice Chaney Project Performance Corporation	A Case Study In Implementing An Organizational Process To Manage Project Status Through Metrics Marty Safirstein & Feno Monaco Allstate Insurance	ITIL: A Foundation for Project Success Alan S. Koch, PMP ASK Process, Inc.
10:45 - 11:45	How Not to Have a Check in the Box Mentality Dianne Turner Project Performance Corporation	A Process for Ensuring Integrity of Releases Joe Levens Wolters Kluwer	Support the CMMI initiatives with well designed measurement constructs Agnes E. Nanu Booz Allen Hamilton	Help IT Demonstrate its Value: Measurement for Performance and Value Clyneice Chaney Project Performance Corporation	Project Management & Estimation; A Practical Approach, not a “Wiz kid” One Charles Schiano Avaya
11:45 - 12:30	Visit Exhibit & Vendor Presentations
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch & Discussion Groups
	SPI	Quality Management	CMM/CMMI	Measurements	Lean Approaches
1:30 - 2:30	Best Practices for Identifying Requirements Errors and Improving Software Project Success Dr. Joe Marasco Ravenflow	A Software Development Process to Successfully Implement COTS Enhancements Charles Schiano Avaya	Developing a CMMI compliant Estimation approach Clyneice Chaney Project Performance Corporation	Using Six Sigma, A real Case Gloriana Jiménez Chaverri Exactus de Costa Rica	Lean Risk Management Richard Bollinger Natural SPI, Inc.
2:45 - 3:45	Traceability: A Proposal for a Scalable Approach, Agile To Formal Thomas M. Cagley Jr. David Consulting Group	A day In The Life Of A Business Quality Assurance Manager For A Level 5 Software Services Organization of Quality Nikhil Gupta	Quantifying Risk Management Approaches in CMMI Level-3 Company Cenkler Yakin STM	A Case Study on Implementing an Organizational Measurement Program Cheryl Saar & Feno Monaco Allstate Insurance	A Case Study in Globally-Distributed Lean Software Development Jerry Berntsen Honeywell Aerospace Software CoE
4:00 - 5:00	A Case Study in the Design and Deployment of a Process System for a Large Aerospace Operation Jerry Berntsen Honeywell Aerospace Software CoE	Changing Organizations: Getting out of the Delta into the Future! Clyneice Chaney Project Performance Corporation	Audit Stepping Stones: A Graduated Approach to Introducing CMMI Process and Product Quality Assurance Margo Rice Project Performance Corporation	Choose your measures wisely: A Case Study using GQ(I)M Marty Safirstein	Application of Lean tenets in various Software life-cycle models Nikhil Gupta Wipro Technologies
5:00 - 6:30	Conference Reception

 

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

7:00 - 8:00	Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:15	Opening Remarks: Dr. Magdy Hanna Conference Chair
8:15 - 9:15	Keynote: The Ideal Software Project Watts Humphrey
	SPI	Quality Management I	CMM/CMMI	Quality Management II	Agile Approaches
9:30 - 10:30	FEATURE PRESENTATION Process QA: Learning about Collaboration From the Agile Methods Alan S. Koch ASK Process, Inc.	Engineering Quality – Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time Chris Hetzler Appolis	Is Your Crystal Ball Foggy? A Practical Framework for Deploying Predictive Models Jeff Amspaugh, Dale Crawford & Jeff Bridgman	Thriving in a Diverse Environment Through Technology Change Management Barbara Dreon Northrop Grumman Corporation	eXtreme Lessons Learned from eXtreme Programming Trevor Paradis Stelligent Incorporated
10:45 - 11:45	One NASA: Sharing Knowledge through an Agency-wide Process Asset Library (PAL) Baraka J. Truss NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center	FEATURE PRESENTATION How to Design a World Class Quality Assurance Team Iris C. Trout Bloomberg, lp	Roadmap for Effective Implementation of the CMMI Diane M. Burwick Business Process Solutions	Accelerating Delivery of Reliable Software Solutions: How Quantified Software Development Optimizes Software Production Burke Cox Stelligent Incorporated	Agile Software Development in a Staged-Gate Environment Lean Software Development Don Opperthauser AgileTek LLC
11:45 - 12:30	Visit Exhibit & Vendor Presentations
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch & Discussion Groups
1:30 - 2:30	Holistic Defect Management Sudhir Pai & Upendra Wagh	Me Facilitate the Session: Fundamentals of Meeting Facilitation Clyneice Chaney Project Performance Corporation	Communication and Assessment Tools: Ensure a Rapid, Successful CMMI Implementation Margo Rice Project Performance Corporation	Avoiding Shock Therapy: A Case Study in Managing Directional Changes Thomas Cutting, PMP Keane, Inc.	Agile Principles Applied to Software Process Development Mary Behnke Raytheon Missle Systems
2:45 - 3:45	FEATURE PRESENTATION Software Process Improvement's Dirty Little Secret Robin Goldsmith, JD GoPro Management	Beyond Agile: What else can you do to make development more efficient? Ido Ben-Moshe BMC Software	America’s Next Top Model: CMMI (CMMI best practices) Stephen Gristock JP MorganChase	Requirement Instability: Causes, Symptoms, and Cures Dan Tucker Booz Allen Hamilton	Test Team Integration in Large-Scale Scrum Implementations Shaun Bradshaw Questcon Technologies
4:00 - 5:00	The Software Process Improvement Open Forum